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Busy Day aka How to detect WordPress
By maurizio | July 4, 2007
Today I had too much to do with my Sites Database. Btw… I should find a name for that project. :-)
Anyway I got a bit of traffic from StumbleUpon..almost 300 users but no one left an useful comment.
Richard and some other guy around the net gave me some ideas to find out WordPress sites. Richard specifically told me something very trivial: look for the text “Powered by WordPress“. Sounds easy, the problem is that WordPress in that text is an hyperlink and that gives me some problem because I have the whole page in a DOM object. (Don’t worry if you don’t know what a DOM object is..too difficult to explain/understand)
Actually it shouldn’t be that difficult. Surely isn’t so easy as it seemed at the beginning.
Another way is to look for the page at “XXXX/wp-admin/“, where XXXX is the url of the site. This should give me at least 99% of accurancy, because it’s not that common that people rename that directory.
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